Context but not reading speed modulates transposed-word effects in Chinese reading

• DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103272
• Publication Date: 2021-02-26T02:58:42Z
• Authors: Zhiwei Liu; Yan Li; Jingxin Wang
• Keywords: Grammaticality

Recent research using a speeded grammaticality decision revealed novel transposed-word effects when reading alphabetic languages such as French (Mirault, Snell, & Grainger, 2018), and nonalphabetic Chinese (Liu, Li, Paterson, Wang, 2020). Transposed-word are considered to reflect flexibility in word order processing, but the factors that might modulate remain unknown. The present study investigated this issue by within-subjects design reading. In experiment 1, participants were asked read sentences at their normal speed make decisions accurately possible. No significant interaction between was found, suggesting not modulated they similar regardless of whether slowly or quickly. 2, we manipulated context before transposed words used task. We observed interactive context, analyses decreased first second sentence. conclude rather than modulates discuss these findings with regard noisy bottom-up allocation identities top-down sentence-level constraints.